-LRB- CNN -RRB- For the second time during his papacy , Pope Francis has announced a new group of bishops and archbishops set to become cardinals -- and they come from all over the world .

Pope Francis said Sunday that he would hold a meeting of cardinals on February 14 `` during which I will name 15 new Cardinals who , coming from 13 countries from every continent , manifest the indissoluble links between the Church of Rome and the particular Churches present in the world , '' according to Vatican Radio .

New cardinals are always important because they set the tone in the church and also elect the next pope , CNN Senior Vatican Analyst John L. Allen said . They are sometimes referred to as the princes of the Catholic Church .

The new cardinals come from countries such as Ethiopia , New Zealand and Myanmar .

`` This is a pope who very much wants to reach out to people on the margins , and you clearly see that in this set , '' Allen said . `` You 're talking about cardinals from typically overlooked places , like Cape Verde , the Pacific island of Tonga , Panama , Thailand , Uruguay . ''

But for the second time since Francis ' election , no Americans made the list .

`` Francis ' pattern is very clear : He wants to go to the geographical peripheries rather than places that are already top-heavy with cardinals , '' Allen said .

Christopher Bellitto , a professor of church history at Kean University in New Jersey , noted that Francis announced his new slate of cardinals on the Catholic Feast of the Epiphany , which commemorates the visit of the Magi to Jesus ' birthplace in Bethlehem .

`` On feast of three wise men from far away , the Pope 's choices for cardinal say that every local church deserves a place at the big table . ''

In other words , Francis wants a more decentralized church and wants to hear reform ideas from small communities that sit far from Catholicism 's power centers , Bellitto said .

That does n't mean Francis is the first pontiff to appoint cardinals from the developing world , though . Beginning in the 1920s , an increasing number of Latin American churchmen were named cardinals , and in the 1960s , St. John XXIII , whom Francis canonized last year , appointed the first cardinals from Japan , the Philippines and Africa .

In addition to the 15 new cardinals Francis named on Sunday , five retired archbishops and bishops will also be honored as cardinals .

Last year , Pope Francis appointed 19 new cardinals , including bishops from Haiti and Burkina Faso .

CNN 's Daniel Burke and Christabelle Fombu contributed to this report .

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The 15 new cardinals will be installed on February 14

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They come from countries such as Myanmar and Tonga

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No Americans made the list this time or the previous time in Francis ' papacy